I've been playing Grand Theft Auto IV on PC for months now. It's a great game and all, but lately error messages have been appearing saying "SecuROM Launcher has stopped working" when I tried to start the game. I tried everything. I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it. It worked fine without the Simple Native Trainer. It was when I installed the Simple Native Trainer that it started crashing on start up again. What's interesting is that I downloaded a bypass for the SecuROM Launcher and it worked fine without the Simple Native Trainer, but when I installed the Simple Native Trainer an error message appeared when I started the game saying "Grand Theft Auto IV has stopped working".

I just don't know what to do at this point. I'm out of options.

I am using an Acer Aspire 5349 laptop for the task. Here's the specs:

Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) B815 @ 1.60GHz 1.60 GHz

Installed memory (RAM): 6.00 GB (5.85 GB usable)

System type: 64-bit Operating System

Graphics card: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family

Video memory: 1760 MB

I also shut down every process not needed for gaming, thanks to Razer Game Booster. I also use the following commandline.txt parameters:

-novsync

-novblank

-viewdistance 0

-renderquality 0

-detailquality

-frameLimit 0

-texturequality 0

-availablevidmem 4.0

-refreshrate 60

-frameLimit 1

-nominimize

-forcer2vb

-DX11 / high

-framelockinwindow

-managed

-memrestrict 188743680

-noswapdelay

-disableimposters

-no_3GB

-percentvidmem 1.0

Am I going to have to build a gaming PC or do I need to modify the commandline.txt file or anything?

That's nice and all but all that shows is that there are more people like you who've pirated the game and then complain about issues they're having with it. Even if this a problem occuring with bought games, that doesn't change the fact that you pirated it.

Odds are you won't face these problems when you buy it, alot of secure-rom issues are related to pirated copies